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government will not know in advance whether the subsidy is World Trade Organization-legal …This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes …
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dollar. Without downplaying the importance of subsidy elimination, the paper concludes that these impediments should receive …
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Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect...
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World … Doha negotiations are on average twice as restrictive as actual policy. They will generate no additional market opening …
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Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most … frequent users of the WTO-sanctioned antidumping trade policy instrument. This paper exploits newly available data to examine … the pattern of actual industrial use of antidumping in nine of the major new user developing countries - Argentina, Brazil …
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Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … subsidies and tariffs - for cotton it is subsidy reductions rather than tariff cuts that would make by far the largest impact …
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This study investigates trade effects of the regional liberalization of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) in the form of harmonization and mutual recognition agreements (MRAs) for testing procedures. The theoretical part of the paper is framed in terms of a heterogeneous firms approach. This...
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. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …
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Contrary to the prevailing view that the Doha negotiations have achieved little, the authors find that on trade … whole, this is the approach the WTO has taken, for example, by limiting its negotiations on trade facilitation to several …
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The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) to commit to service sector policy reforms. They compare GATS commitments with the evolution of actual policy stances over time. While there is substantial...
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